p. 43 on the bias toward English

« The early generativists did not merely display a bias toward English; they presumed (no doubt to some degree out of lack of exposure to other lan-guages) that its basic structures must reflect the important ones out of which the language organ operated. The arrogance and dismissal of gener-ativists toward other approaches, especially in the 196os, can hardly be over-stated. This was a scientific revolution; it was making clear and straight what until that point had been fuzzy and multivariate; it was cleaning up what had been dirty. »